PS3 hard drives-7200 rpm ok?

It's time to once again update my ps3 drive as I'm down to less than 20 GB. I have a 40 GB model PS3 with a 320 GB hard drive. I'm sure if I deleted some stuff that I don't use I'd be fine but I'm too lazy. So I went to Fry's and saw they had a Hitachi 1 TB 7200 rpm for the same price as a Seagate 1 TB 5400 rpm. My desktop has Hitachi drives in them and I think they are reliable. In the past I've put a 7200 rpm drive in a laptop and it heated up the laptop and caused instability. I don't care too much about decreasing load times. I just wanted to know if it's stable enough, if anyone else is using a 7200 drive in their ps3.

It should be fine, though you won't really see any performance benefits. But if they're the same price I would definitely go with a Hitachi drive over a Seagate. Personally I tend to stick with Wester Digital drives for both internal and external, I've had a number of Seagate drives fail on me in the past and really try to avoid them now.

Lol, you fill up your hard drive and then just buy a new one. Buying a hard drive, removing the old one and putting the new one in, backing up your PS3 and restoring it or having to reinstall all your game patches sounds like more work than deleting some demos and game installs of games you don't play anymore.

It's time to once again update my ps3 drive as I'm down to less than 20 GB. I have a 40 GB model PS3 with a 320 GB hard drive. I'm sure if I deleted some stuff that I don't use I'd be fine but I'm too lazy. So I went to Fry's and saw they had a Hitachi 1 TB 7200 rpm for the same price as a Seagate 1 TB 5400 rpm. My desktop has Hitachi drives in them and I think they are reliable. In the past I've put a 7200 rpm drive in a laptop and it heated up the laptop and caused instability. I don't care too much about decreasing load times. I just wanted to know if it's stable enough, if anyone else is using a 7200 drive in their ps3.

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7200 drives cause more heat, which is a potential problem with your 40GIG fat.....especially if it has 90nm chipsets.

I'm sure if I deleted some stuff that I don't use I'd be fine but I'm too lazy.

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The time you spend making space is not worth more than the money you'd spend on a new hard drive. Besides, you'd spend even more time backing up your data and transferring it to the new hard drive. Also, 20GB is plenty of space for a PS3. It's not a computer.

While I agree that not everyone needs a 1TB hard drive in their PS3, even a moderate PS3 user most likely needs way more than 20GB of space. Just how many hundreds of GB someone needs depends on your individual usage.

While I agree that not everyone needs a 1TB hard drive in their PS3, even a moderate PS3 user most likely needs way more than 20GB of space. Just how many hundreds of GB someone needs depends on your individual usage.

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What I mean is that I don't consider it time to clean up my hard drive when I have 20GB of space. It will vary depending on if you download a lot of games, but for me it lasts a long time.

While I agree that not everyone needs a 1TB hard drive in their PS3, even a moderate PS3 user most likely needs way more than 20GB of space. Just how many hundreds of GB someone needs depends on your individual usage.

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What I mean is that I don't consider it time to clean up my hard drive when I have 20GB of space. It will vary depending on if you download a lot of games, but for me it lasts a long time.

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If all I had was a 20GB drive then I would be spending all my time constantly deleting and downloading stuff. Sounds like nothing but a huge hassle. I bought a 40GB PS3 and easily filled up the drive in the first few days before I got a larger one to put in there.

While I agree that not everyone needs a 1TB hard drive in their PS3, even a moderate PS3 user most likely needs way more than 20GB of space. Just how many hundreds of GB someone needs depends on your individual usage.

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What I mean is that I don't consider it time to clean up my hard drive when I have 20GB of space. It will vary depending on if you download a lot of games, but for me it lasts a long time.

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If all I had was a 20GB drive then I would be spending all my time constantly deleting and downloading stuff. Sounds like nothing but a huge hassle. I bought a 40GB PS3 and easily filled up the drive in the first few days before I got a larger one to put in there.

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It's not that simple. As total space, it's definitely too little. But excluding space taken up by the OS, saves, and game data for most games, 20GB of free space isn't that small. It would take multiple games to fill it up.

Lol, you fill up your hard drive and then just buy a new one. Buying a hard drive, removing the old one and putting the new one in, backing up your PS3 and restoring it or having to reinstall all your game patches sounds like more work than deleting some demos and game installs of games you don't play anymore.

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Ya but doing all that stuff is actually fun for me. And I'm giving my 320 GB drive to my bro for his laptop since his laptop drive failed.

Did you eventually upgrade to 1TB? I was wondering what your actual available space was. When I upgraded my 40G to 500G I had about 455 available. It seems that the File allocation system in the OS uses about 9 percent of the HD (from reading other people's posts using different HD sizes and my own experience). My 500G Fatty is now completely full and I am constantly deleting lately. Plus it seems to be acting up lately. I'm thinking about getting a 250 Super Slim and Upgrading it to 1TB.

Did you eventually upgrade to 1TB? I was wondering what your actual available space was. When I upgraded my 40G to 500G I had about 455 available. It seems that the File allocation system in the OS uses about 9 percent of the HD (from reading other people's posts using different HD sizes and my own experience). My 500G Fatty is now completely full and I am constantly deleting lately. Plus it seems to be acting up lately. I'm thinking about getting a 250 Super Slim and Upgrading it to 1TB.

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I did have a 1TB 7200 rpm in my FAT but it died, well actually a fan internally stopped working, not bad for a reburb'd that's lasted like 5-6 years. I took the hard drive out and put it in the Red GoW super slim, worked great until the last update since the update kills any PS3 with a > 500GB hard drive. Well it's not really dead, it will work if I put in a smaller drive but I have no desire to redownload and reinstall a couple hundred gigs of stuff, so I'm just waiting for a fix

I'm sure if I deleted some stuff that I don't use I'd be fine but I'm too lazy.

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The time you spend making space is not worth more than the money you'd spend on a new hard drive. Besides, you'd spend even more time backing up your data and transferring it to the new hard drive. Also, 20GB is plenty of space for a PS3. It's not a computer.

I love all these people who say 20GB isn't manageable. I did it for 4 years with no problem. It isn't that hard to delete game installs for games you don't play anymore. I'll admit that after finally upgrading to 320GB, I don't ever want to deal with that shit again

I'm sure if I deleted some stuff that I don't use I'd be fine but I'm too lazy.

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The time you spend making space is not worth more than the money you'd spend on a new hard drive. Besides, you'd spend even more time backing up your data and transferring it to the new hard drive. Also, 20GB is plenty of space for a PS3. It's not a computer.